Philosophy of Pseudoscience

Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
Herausgeber: Boudry, Maarten; Pigliucci, Massimo

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Produktbeschreibung

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780226051963
• ISBN-10: 022605196X
• Artikelnr.: 39171752

Autorenporträt

Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. He has written many books, including Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk and, most recently, Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life. Maarten Boudry is a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research at Ghent University and wrote a dissertation on pseudoscience, Here Be Dragons: Exploring the Hinterland of Science.